Suspects in killings of Vermont border patrol agent and California man connected by marriage license, extreme ideology

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https://vtdigger.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vermont-border-patrol-agent-and-california-man-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

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Both suspects attended the prestigious Lakeside School in Seattle, studied computer science and appear to sympathize with a fringe Bay Area group described by one person as a “murder gang.”

Two young people who applied in November 2024 for a marriage license in Washington have each been charged by authorities in separate January killings that claimed the lives of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont and an 82-year-old landlord in Vallejo, California, according to police and court records obtained by Open Vallejo.

Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old data scientist arrested in Northern California on Friday on suspicion of murder, and Teresa Youngblut, the 21-year-old computer science student charged last week in connection with the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David C. Maland, appear to follow a fringe, self-described “vegan Sith” ideology that started in the Bay Area and has connections to violence, according to police records, an interview with a person familiar with the group, and years of social media and blog posts reviewed by Open Vallejo.

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Snyder and Youngblut’s social media posts and accounts display beliefs consistent with Zizianism, although court records do not explicitly tie them to the ideology.

“There’s this whole literature and decision theory about this kind of thing. So there’s some amount of legitness behind this,” Taylor said of timeless decision theory. “But they take it in all these weird directions where they’re talking about, like, ‘Oh, maybe if I make this decision, I will, like, burn the entire timeline.’ And so it gets really weird.”

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1. Continental partners in crime

Coast to coast weird.